List of Quakers
This is a list of notable people associated with the Religious Society of Friends, also known as Quakers, who have a Wikipedia article. The first part consists of individuals who are known to be or to have been Quakers continually from some point in their lives onward.
The second part consists of individuals whose parents were Quakers or who were Quakers themselves at one time in their lives but then converted to another religion, formally or informally distanced themselves from the Society of Friends, or were disowned by their Friends Meeting.
Quakers
A
- Elisabeth Abegg (1882–1974), German educator and rescuer of Jews during the Holocaust[1]
- Harry Albright (living), Swiss-born Canadian former editor of The Friend, Communications Consultant for FWCC[2]
- Thomas Aldham (c. 1616–1660), English Quaker instrumental in setting up the first meeting in the Doncaster area[3]
- Horace Alexander (1889–1989), English writer on India and friend of Gandhi[4]
- William Allen (1770–1843), English scientist, philanthropist, and abolitionist[5]
- Edgar Anderson (1897–1969), American botanist[6]
- Charlotte Anley (1796–1893), English novelist and writer[7]
- Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906), American suffragist, abolitionist, and pioneer of feminism and civil rights[8]
- Elizabeth Ashbridge (1713–1755), English Quaker preacher and memoirist[9]
- Ann Austin (17th century), early English Quaker missionary[10]
- Iwao Ayusawa (1894–1972), Japanese diplomat[11]
B
- Edmund Backhouse (1824–1906), English banker and MP of Parliament for Darlington[12]
- James Backhouse (1794–1869), UK-born Australian botanist and missionary[13]
- Edmund Bacon (1910–2005), American architect[14]
- Ernest Bader (1890–1982), Swiss-born English businessman and philanthropist[15]
- Eric Baker (1920–1976), English co-founder of Amnesty International and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament[16]
- John Balaban (b. 1943), American poet and translator[17]
- Emily Greene Balch (1867–1961), American Nobel Peace Prize winner[18]
- Chris Barber (1921–2012), British businessman and chairman of Oxfam[19]
- Robert Barclay (1648–1690), Scottish theologian[20]
- Geoffrey Barraclough (1908–1984), English historian[21]
- Bernard Barton (1784–1849), English poet[22]
- John Barton (1755–1789), English abolitionist[23]
- John Bartram (1699–1777), American botanist[24]
- William Bates (d. 1700), a founder of Newton Colony, the third English colony in West Jersey[25]
- Helen Bayes (born 1944), UK-born Australian child rights activist, Director of Silver Wattle Quaker Centre (2009–12)[26]
- Joel Bean (1825–1914), American Quaker minister[27]
- Anthony Benezet (1713–1784), American educator, abolitionist[28]
- Caleb P. Bennett (1758–1836), American soldier and politician[29]
- Douglas C. Bennett (b. 1946), American academic, president of Earlham College[30]
- Lewis Benson (1906–1986), American printer, expert in Early Quakerism, especially George Fox[31]
- Hester Biddle (c. 1629–1697), English pamphleteer and preacher[32]
- Albert Bigelow (1906–1993), American nuclear weapons protester[33]
- J. Brent Bill (b. 1951), American recorded minister and writer on religion[34]
- George Birkbeck (1776–1841), one of the English founders of London Mechanics Institute, now Birkbeck, University of London[35]
- Sarah Blackborow (fl. 1650s–1660s), English tractarian prominent in discussion of the role of women in the Society and of social issues
- Barbara Blaugdone (c. 1609–1705), English autobiographer and minister
- Taylor A. Borradaile (1885–1977), chemist and one of the four founders and first President of Phi Kappa Tau fraternity; two of the founding principles of Phi Kappa Tau are also two of the Quaker SPICE's: Integrity and Equality
- Elise Boulding (1920–2010), Norwegian-born American educator, sociologist, prominent in the 20th century peace research movement[36]
- Kenneth E. Boulding (1910–1993), English economist, educator, poet, and interdisciplinary philosopher[37]
- Bathsheba Bowers (4 June 1671–1718), American religious author and preacher[38]
- Samuel Bownas (1676–1753), English travelling minister and writer[39]
- John Bowne (1627–1695), English-born promoter of religious freedom in colonial America[40]
- Sandra Boynton (b. 1953), American writer, cartoonist and composer[41]
- George Bradshaw (1801–1853), English cartographer, printer, publisher, originator of the railway timetable[42]
- John Bright (1811–1889), English politician[43]
- Edmund Wright Brooks (1834–1928), English philanthropist and cement maker[44]
- Elizabeth Brown (1830–1899), English astronomer and meteorologist[45]
- Moses Brown (1738–1836), American industrialist and philanthropist[46]
- Jocelyn Bell Burnell (born 1943), Northern Irish astrophysicist[47]
- Edward Burrough (1634–1663), English member of the Valiant Sixty[48]
- Smedley D. Butler (1881–1940), Major General in the United States Marine Corps and author of War is a Racket
- Thomas S. Butler (1855–1928), American congressman[49]
- Charles Roden Buxton (1875–1942), British member of Parliament[50]
C
- George Cadbury (1839–1922), English chocolatier[51]
- Henry Cadbury (1883–1974), American writer and chairman of the American Friends Service Committee[52]
- John Cadbury (1801–1889), English chocolatier[51]
- Richard Tapper Cadbury (1768–1860), English draper, abolitionist, philanthropist[53]
- Arthur Capper (1865–1951), governor and American senator from Kansas[54]
- Thomas Carpenter (1752–1847), fighting Quaker who served in the Revolutionary War and afterwards as a glassmaker[55]
- Pierre Cérésole (1879–1945), Swiss founder of Service Civil International[56]
- Whittaker Chambers (1901–1961), American ex-communist, ex-Soviet spy converted to Quakerism[57]
- Henry Christy (1810–1865), English banker, philanthropist and anthropologist[58]
- Cyrus Clark (fl. 1825–1863), English co-founder of C&J Clark, shoe manufacturers in Street, Somerset[59]
- William Coddington (1601–1678), first governor of Rhode Island[60]
- Levi Coffin (1798–1877), American abolitionist[61]
- John S. Collins (1837–1928), American land developer[62]
- Peter Collinson FRS (1694–1768), English botanist[63]
- John Conard (1773–1857), American politician nicknamed the "Fighting Quaker", buried in an Episcopal Church graveyard[54]
- Anne Finch Conway (1631–1679), English philosopher[64]
- William Cooper (1754–1809), founder of Cooperstown, New York and father of author James Fenimore Cooper[65]
- James A. Corbett (1933–2001), American human-rights campaigner[66]
- Pit Corder (1918–1990), English applied linguist[67]
- Isaac Crewdson (1780–1844), Quaker minister and founder of the Evangelical Friends or Beaconites
- Stephen Crisp (1628–1692), English writer and registered Quaker minister, also in the Low Countries[68]
- Joseph Crosfield (1792–1844), English industrialist[69]
- James Cudworth (1817–1899), steam locomotive designer[70]
- Adam Curle (1916–2006), first professor of peace studies at the University of Bradford[71]
D
- John Dalton (1766–1844), English chemist[72]
- Abraham Darby I (1678–1717), English ironmaster[73]
- Abraham Darby II (1711–1763), English ironmaster[74]
- Abraham Darby III (1750–1791), English ironmaster[75]
- Judi Dench (b. 1934), English actress[76]
- Philip Dennis, agriculture missionary to the Miami Nation[77]
- Caleb Deschanel (b. 1944), American cinematographer[78]
- William Dewsbury (1671–1688), English Quaker minister[79]
- John Dickinson (1732–1808), American lawyer and governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania[80]
- Jonathan Dickinson (1663–1722), Jamaican-born colonial American merchant and politician[81]
- Richard Dillingham (1823–1850), American abolitionist[82]
- Ambrose Dixon (1619–1687), colonial American[83]
- Stephen Donaldson (1946–1996), prison and LGBT activist[84]
- Edward Doubleday (1811–1849), English entomologist and ornithologist[85]
- Henry Doubleday (1808–1875), English entomologist and ornithologist[86]
- Henry Doubleday (1810–1902), English scientist and horticulturalist[87]
- Sue Doughty (b. 1948), English politician[88]
- Paul Douglas (1892–1976), economist and US senator[89]
- Margaret Drabble (b. 1939), novelist[90]
- Muriel Duckworth (1908–2009), Canadian peace campaigner[91]
- Cuthbert Dukes (1890–1977), English physician and pathologist[92]
- Robert Dunkin (1761–1831), English businessman and patron of science[93]
- Mary Dyer (1611?–1660), colonial American religious martyr[94]
E
- Solomon Eccles (1618–1683), initially a composer, later a Quaker preacher[95]
- Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882–1944), astrophysicist[96]
- Paul Eddington (1927–1995), actor[97]
- George Edmondson (1798–1863), educator[98]
- Fritz Eichenberg (1901–1990), illustrator[99]
- George Ellis (b. 1939), Templeton Prize winning cosmologist[100]
- Rowland Ellis (1650–1731), Welsh Quaker leader[101]
- Thomas Ellwood (1639–1713), English religious writer[102]
- Joshua Evans (1731–1798), minister, journalist, and abolitionist from Haddonfield, New Jersey[103]
F
- Chuck Fager (b. 1942), American civil rights campaigner[104]
- Margaret Fell (1614–1702), English Quaker, one of the Valiant Sixty[105]
- John Fenwick (1618–1683), English founder of Fenwick's Colony, the first English settlement in West Jersey[106]
- James Finlayson (1772–1852), Scottish engineer prominent in Finland[107]
- Mary Fisher (1623–1698), English Quaker preacher[108]
- Isabella Ford (1855–1924), English feminist and socialist[109]
- Edwin B. Forsythe (1916–1984), representative for New Jersey[54]
- Richard J. Foster, ecumenical leader and reformer, founder of Renovaré[110]
- John Fothergill (1712–1780), English Quaker physician, preacher and philanthropist[107]
- Barclay Fox (1817–1855), English diarist[111]
- Caroline Fox (1819–1871), English diarist[112]
- George Fox (1624–1691), founder of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)[113]
- Robert Were Fox I (1754–1818), English businessman[114]
- Robert Were Fox II (1789–1877), English geologist[115]
- Samuel Fox (1781–1868), English philanthropist and grocer[116]
- Tom Fox (1951–2006), humanitarian worker with Christian Peacemaking teams, held captive and killed in Iraq[117]
- Ursula Franklin (b. 1921), German-born Canadian metallurgist and research physicist[118]
- Francis Frith (1822–1898), English photographer[119]
- Christopher Fry (1907–2005), English playwright[120]
- Elizabeth Fry (1780–1845), English prison reformer[121]
- Joan Mary Fry (1862–1955), English relief worker and social reformer[122]
- Joseph Fry (1777–1861), English tea dealer and an unsuccessful banker[123]
- Margery Fry (1874–1958), English penal reformer and college principal[124]
G
- Thomas Garrett (1789–1871), American abolitionist
- Charles Gilpin (1815–1874), member of UK Parliament[125]
- Rickman Godlee (1849–1925), English surgeon and biographer[126]
- George Graham (1673–1751), English clockmaker, inventor, and member of the Royal Society[127]
- Marion Greeves (1894–1979), one of first two female members of the Senate of Northern Ireland[128]
- Israel Gregg (1775–1847), first captain of the steamboat Enterprise[129]
- Stephen Grellet (1773–1855), French-born American missionary[130]
- Philip Gross (b. 1952), English poet, novelist and playwright[131]
- Edward Grubb (1854–1939), English religious writer[132]
- Paul Grundy (living), founding President of Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative[133] and IBM's Global Director of Healthcare Transformation
- Joseph John Gurney (1788–1847), English banker, evangelical and abolitionist[134]
H
- Elizabeth Haddon (1680–1762), English-born founder of Haddonfield, New Jersey[135]
- Sheila Hancock (b. 1933), English comedian/actress[136]
- Edmund Happold (1930–1996), English engineer[137]
- Jan de Hartog (1914–2002), Dutch-born American playwright, novelist, and social critic[138]
- Laura Smith Haviland (1808–1898), American abolitionist and social reformer[139]
- Wilson A. Head (b. 1914), American/Canadian sociologist, human rights activist[140]
- John Hickenlooper (b. 1952), American politician[141]
- Edward Hicks (1780–1849), American painter and recorded Quaker minister[142]
- Elias Hicks (1748–1830), American Quaker minister, origin of the Hicksite Quaker schism of 1827[143]
- Declan Hill (living), Canadian journalist[144]
- Gordon Hirabayashi (1918–2012), American sociologist who defied World War II internment orders; moved to Canada to teach in 1959 and remained there until his death[145]
- Charles Elmer Hires (1851–1937), early promoter of commercially prepared root beer[146]
- John Hodgkin (1766–1845), English grammarian and calligrapher[147]
- John Hodgkin (1800–1875), English barrister and Quaker preacher[148]
- Thomas Hodgkin (1798–1866), English physician, identifier of Hodgkin's lymphoma[149]
- Thomas Hodgkin (1831–1913), British historian [150]
- Gerard Hoffnung (1925–1959), English cartoonist, musician and humorist[151]
- Christopher Holder (c. 1631–post-1676), English-born American Quaker evangelist[152]
- David P. Holloway (1809–1883), American representative from Indiana[54]
- Rush D. Holt, Jr. (b. 1948), American congressman[153]
- Elizabeth Hooton (1600–1672), pioneer English preacher[154]
- Herbert Hoover (1874–1964), American president[155]
- Johns Hopkins (1795–1873), American philanthropist[156]
- Samuel Howell (1723–1807), Philadelphia merchant and supporter of American independence.
- Francis Howgill, English preacher and writer[157]
- Mary Howitt (1799–1888), English poet, children's writer and translator[158]
- William Howitt (1792–1879), English writer and poet[159]
- Charles Humphreys (1714–1786), Continental Congressman[54]
- John Hunn (1849–1926), governor of Delaware[160]
- Esther Hunt (1751–1820), wife, mother and a leader in her Quaker faith on America's frontier[161]
- John Hunt (1712–1778), English-born minister, one of the "Virginia Exiles"[162]
- John Hunt (1740–1824), minister and journalist from Moorestown, New Jersey[163]
J
- Rufus Jones (1863–1948), American Quaker theologian[164]
- T. Canby Jones (b. 1921), American Quaker peace campaigner, theologian, and academic[165]
K
- Thomas R. Kelly (1893–1941), American missionary, educator, and spiritual writer[166]
- Malachy Kilbride (living), American peace and social justice campaigner[167]
- Garry Kilworth (b. 1941), English novelist and short story writer[168]
- Haven Kimmel (b. 1965), American novelist and children's writer[169]
- Ben Kingsley (b. 1943), English actor[170]
- Judith Kirton-Darling (b. 1977), British politician[171]
- Anne Knight (1792–1860), English children's writer[172]
L
- Joseph Lancaster (1778–1838), public education innovator[173]
- Benjamin Lay (1681–1760), Quaker abolitionist[174]
- John C. Lettsome (1744–1815), English physician and founder of the Medical Society of London[175]
- Raph Levien (living), free software author behind Ghostscript and Advogato[176]
- John Lilburne (1614–1657), Leveller convert to Quakerism
- Richard Lippincott (1615–1683), an early settler of Shrewsbury, New Jersey[177]
- Joseph Jackson Lister (1786–1869), amateur British opticist and physicist and father of Joseph Lister[178]
- Kathleen Lonsdale (1903–1971), scientist[179]
M
- John Macmurray (1891–1976), philosopher[180]
- Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge (b. 1952), South African health minister[181]
- Elizabeth Magie (1866–1948), inventor of Monopoly[182]
- Ellen Marriage (1865–1946), translator of Balzac[183]
- Milton Mayer (1908–1986), American journalist and writer[184]
- James Michener (1907–1997), American author[185]
- Samuel Moore (c. 1630–1688), early official in New Jersey[186]
- Ethan Mordden (born 1949), American writer[187]
- Ruth Morris (1933–2001), Canadian advocate of the abolition of prisons[188]
- Lucretia Mott (1793–1880), American abolitionist and suffragist[189]
- Rich Mullins (1955–1997), American Christian singer and songwriter[190]
- Lindley Murray (1745–1826), author of Murray's English Reader[191]
- Edward R. Murrow (1908–1965), journalist[192]
N
- James Nayler (1618–1660), former soldier and member of the Valiant Sixty[193]
- Russ Nelson (b. 1958), American open source software developer[194]
- Edmund Hort New (1871–1931), English artist and illustrator[195]
- Carrie Newcomer (living), American singer-songwriter[196]
- Sir George Newman (1870–1948), British chief medical officer[197]
- Samuel Nicholas (1744–1790), the first commandant of the United States Marine Corps[198]
- Sally Nicholls (b. 1983), English children's author[199]
- Nitobe Inazō (1862–1933), Japanese diplomat, educator, author[200]
- Richard Nixon (1913–1994), American President[201]
- John Howard Nodal (1831–1909), English journalist and dialectologist[202]
- Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker (1889–1982), diplomat and Nobel Peace Prize laureate[203]
O
- Amelia Opie (1769–1853), English novelist[204]
- Constantine Overton (1626/7–1690?), Quaker leader in Shrewsbury, Shropshire[205]
P
- Parker Palmer (b. 1939), American writer, teacher, and campaigner[206]
- David Parlett (b. 1939), English writer and games inventor[207]
- Alice Paul (1885–1977), American suffragist[208]
- Edward Pease (1767–1858), English railway owner[209]
- Joseph Pease (1799–1872), first Quaker member of the British Parliament
- Isaac Penington (1616–1679), early English Quaker[210]
- Hannah Callowhill Penn (1671–1726), second wife of William Penn
- William Penn (1644–1718), English-born founder of Pennsylvania[211]
- Herb Pennock (1894–1948), American baseball player[212]
- Olive Pink, Australian botanical illustrator and campaigner for aboriginal rights[213]
- Robert Pleasants (1723–1801), American abolitionist and educator[214]
- William Pollard (1828–1893), English Quaker writer and minister[215]
- Jacob Post (1774–1855), English religious writer[216]
- Oliver Postgate (1925–2008), English animator, creator of Bagpuss[217]
- Gerald Priestland, BBC broadcaster[218]
- Edmond Privat, Swiss ambassador of Esperanto international language, journalist, historian university teacher[219]
- Walter Pumphrey (fl. 1678), English-born American farmer and carpenter[220]
- William Pumphrey (1817–1905), pioneer English photographer[221]
Q
- Daniel Quare (1648/9–1724), English clockmaker and instrument maker[222]
R
- Arthur Raistrick (1896–1991), English conscientious objector, geologist, and industrial archaeologist[223]
- Bonnie Raitt (b. 1949), American singer and musician[224]
- Edith Reeves (fl. early 20th c.), American silent film actress
- Richard Reynolds (1735–1816), English ironmaster at Coalbrookdale[225]
- William Reynolds (1758–1803), English ironmaster and scientist[226]
- John Richardson (1667–1753), English Quaker minister and autobiographer[227]
- John Wigham Richardson (1837–1908), English shipbuilder[228][229]
- Lewis Fry Richardson (1881–1953), English mathematician and geophysicist[230]
- Tom Robinson (b. 1950), English rock musician and disc-jockey[231]
- Joseph Rowntree (1801–1859), chocolatier and educationist[232]
- Bayard Rustin (1912–1987), American civil rights leader[233]
S
- Susanna M. Salter (1860–1961), first woman mayor in the United States[234]
- Clive Sansom (1910–1981), English, then Tasmanian poet, playwright and educator[235]
- William Savery (1750–1804), American Quaker preacher, abolitionist and defender of the rights of Native Americans
- Elizabeth Clare Scurfield (b. 1950), English sinologist[236]
- Andrea Seabrook (b. c. 1974), American journalist and broadcaster[237]
- Ian Serraillier (1912–1994), English novelist, poet and children's writer, joined the Society of Friends in 1939[238]
- Anthony Sharp (1643–1707), Dublin wool merchant[239]
- Isaac Sharp (1681–1735), early New Jersey settler and landowner[240]
- Philip Sherman (1611–1687), English-born first secretary of state of Rhode Island[241]
- Jeanmarie Simpson (b. 1959), American theatre artist and peace activist[242]
- Joan Slonczewski (b. 1956), American biologist and science fiction writer[243]
- Joseph Southall (1861–1944), painter and pacifist[244]
- Lawrence and Cassandra Southwick (c. 1600–1660), English-born colonial American Quakers persecuted with their children for their religious beliefs[245]
- Dorothy Stowe (1920–2010), American-born Canadian social activist and environmentalist, co-founder of Greenpeace[246]
- Irving Stowe (1915–1974), American-born social activist and environmentalist, co-founder of Greenpeace[246]
- John Strettell (1721–1786), English merchant[247]
- Robert Strettell (1693–1762), Irish-born American Quaker convert, early mayor of Philadelphia[248]
- Joseph Sturge (1793–1859), British abolitionist[249]
- Donald Swann (1923–1994), Welsh-born composer, musician and entertainer[250]
- Noah Haynes Swayne (1804–1884), American jurist and politician[251]
T
- Heather Tanner (1903–1993), English writer and peace campaigner[252]
- Robin Tanner (1904–1988), English artist, etcher and printmaker[252]
- Henry S. Taylor, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1986[253]
- Joseph Taylor (b. 1941), American winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics[254]
- Valerie Taylor (1913–1997), novelist[255]
- Philip E. Thomas (1776–1861), first president of the B&O Railroad (the first railroad in the US)[256]
- Thomas Tompion (1639–1713), English clockmaker[257]
- Peterson Toscano (b. 1965), American actor, playwright and gay activist[258]
- Connor Trinneer (b. 1969), actor[259]
- D. Elton Trueblood (1900–1994), theologian[260]
- Daniel Hack Tuke (1827–1895), English physician and expert in mental illness[261]
- Henry Tuke (1755–1814), English co-founder of the York Retreat[262]
- Henry Scott Tuke, RA RWS (1858–1929), English visual artist; primarily a painter, but also a photographer; his most notable work was in the Impressionist style, and he is probably best known for his paintings of nude boys and young men
- James Hack Tuke (1819–1896), English businessman and philanthropist in Ireland[263]
- Samuel Tuke (1784–1857), English philanthropist and campaigner for the mentally ill[264]
- William Tuke (1732–1822), English philanthropist and campaigner for the mentally ill[265]
- James Turrell (b. 1943), American artist[266]
- Edward Burnett Tylor (1832–1917), English anthropologist[267]
V
- Jo Vallentine (b. 1946), peace activist and senator for Western Australia[268]
- William Vickrey (1914–1996), Canadian economist and Nobel Prize winner[269]
- Elfrida Vipont (1902–1992), English novelist, school principal and Quaker activist
W
- Priscilla Wakefield (1751–1832), English educational writer and philanthropist[270]
- Mary Vaux Walcott (1860–1940), American botanical artist[271]
- George Washington Walker (1800–1859), English missionary in Australia[272]
- Alfred Waterhouse (1830–1905), English architect[273]
- Robert Spence Watson (1837–1911), English solicitor, reformer and writer[274]
- Benjamin West (1738–1820), American painter[275]
- Jessamyn West (1902–1984), American novelist[276]
- Joseph Wharton (1826–1909), American merchant, industrialist and philanthropist[277]
- Daniel Wheeler (1771–1840), English minister and missionary[278]
- Barclay White (1821–1906), American Superintendent of Indian Affairs[279]
- Dorothy White (c. 1630–1686), English religious pamphleteer[280]
- George Whitehead (1636–1723), English Quaker lobbyist, preacher and writer
- John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892), American poet[281]
- John Richardson Wigham (1829–1906), Scottish-born Irish inventor and lighthouse engineer[282]
- John Wilbur (1774–1856), prominent American Quaker minister and thinker[283]
- Jemima Wilkinson (excommunicated 1776), the Publick Universal Friend
- Waldo Williams (1904–1971), Welsh-language poet and pacifist[284]
- Lillian Willoughby (c. 1916–2009), American peace campaigner[285]
- Anna Wing (1914–2013), English actress[286]
- Gerrard Winstanley (1609–1676), English social and religious reformer[287]
- Caspar Wistar (1696–1752), German-born Pennsylvania glassmaker[288]
- John Woolman (1720–1772), American Quaker preacher and campaigner against slavery[289]
- Thomas William Worsdell (1838–1916), English steam locomotive engineer[290]
- Wilson Worsdell (1850–1920), English steam locomotive engineer[290]
Y
- William Yardley (1632–1693), early settler of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, after whom Yardley, Pennsylvania is named[291]
- Thomas Young (1773–1829), English polymath best known for physics and Egyptology[292]
People with Quaker roots
Individuals whose parents were Quakers or who were Quakers themselves at one time in their lives but then converted to another religion, formally or informally distanced themselves from the Society of Friends, or were disowned by their Friends Meeting.
- Herbert W. Armstrong (1892–1986), American founder of the Worldwide Church of God[293]
- Kevin Bacon (b. 1958), American actor of Quaker extraction[294]
- Joan Baez (b. 1941), American folk singer and peace campaigner[295]
- L. S. Bevington (1845–1895), English anarchist poet, essayist and journalist[296]
- Morris Birkbeck (1764–1825), American farmer, writer, and promoter of emigration to Illinois[297]
- Daniel Boone (1735–1820), American frontiersman[298]
- Maria Louisa Bustill (1853–1904), American teacher, mother of Paul Robeson[299]
- Smedley Butler (1881–1940), U.S. Marine and social activist[300]
- Ilka Chase (1900–1978), American actress and novelist[301]
- Benjamin Chew, chief justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, became an Anglican in the 1750s[302]
- Ezra Cornell (1807–1874), American founder of Cornell University, expelled for marrying outside the faith[303]
- Warder Cresson (1798–1860), American campaigner, author, and convert to Judaism[304]
- Emily Deschanel (b. 1976), American actress and television producer of Quaker extraction[78]
- Zooey Deschanel (b. 1980), American actress and singer/songwriter/musician of Quaker extraction[78]
- Nathan Dunn (1782–1844), American businessman and collector, disowned in 1816 but followed Quaker ethics through further life[305]
- Sarah Stickney Ellis (1799–1872), writer on women's roles, became a Congregationalist[306]
- Samuel Tertius Galton (1783–1844), businessman and scientist, convert to Anglicanism[307]
- Jesse Gause (1785–1836), early American leader of Latter Day Saint movement[308]
- Nathanael Greene (1742–1786), major general in the Continental Army, member of the Rhode Island General Assembly, third quartermaster general. Disowned by the Quakers in 1773[309]
- Maria Hack (1777–1844), educational writer and contributor to Isaac Crewdson controversy[310]
- Sam Harris (b. 1967), author of The End of Faith with a possibly lapsed Quaker father[311]
- Jonathan Hazard (1744–1824), American statesman and anti-federalist[312]
- Louisa Gurney Hoare (1784–1836), writer on education, convert to Anglicanism[313]
- Thomas Hornor (1767–1834), Canadian farmer and politician, expelled for freemasonry and joining a militia[314]
- John Eliot Howard (1807–1883), English chemist and developer of quinine[315]
- Luke Howard (1772–1864), English chemist and meteorologist,[316] was involved in the Beaconite Controversy and later became associated with the Plymouth Brethren[317]
- Alfred Hunt (1817–1888), American industrialist[318]
- Eric Knight (1897–1943), English-born novelist and children's writer, author of Lassie Come-Home (1940)[319]
- Lyndon LaRouche (b. 1922), disowned in 1941[320][321]
- David Lean (1908–1991), British film director[322]
- Joseph Lister (1827–1912), English surgeon who promoted the idea of sterile surgery[323]
- E. V. Lucas (1868–1938), English writer
- Dolley Madison (1768–1849), first lady[324]
- Dave Matthews (b. 1967), musician[325]
- Thomas Merton (1915–1968), his mother was an American Quaker and he attended a few meetings, but he was baptized and primarily raised as an Anglican[326]
- Maria Mitchell (1818–1889), one of the first women in astronomy; retained ties to the Quakers, but became a Unitarian[327]
- Thomas Paine (1737–1809), Anglo-American political philosopher and revolutionary; his father was a Quaker, but he was a non-religious deist[328]
- Hilary Douglas Clark Pepler (1878–1951), converted to Catholicism and founded The Guild of St Joseph and St Dominic[329]
- Thomas Rickman (1776–1841), English architect and author, and major figure in the Gothic Revival
- Thomas 'Clio' Rickman (1760–1834), political pamphleteer and friend of Thomas Paine
- Ned Rorem (b. 1923), composer of art songs and of a substantial work for organ, "A Quaker Reader"[330]
- Anna Sewell (1820–1878), English children's writer, converted to Anglicanism about 1838[331]
- Joseph Henry Shorthouse (1834–1903), English novelist, converted to Anglicanism in 1861[332]
- Hannah Whitall Smith (1832–1911), American-born evangelical holiness preacher, suffragist and temperance campaigner[333]
- Robert Pearsall Smith (1827–1898), American-born leading figure in the UK Higher Life movement;[334] later began to entertain notions of spiritual wifery, was criticized, and eventually claimed to be a Buddhist[333]
- Satyananda Stokes (1882–1946), raised a Quaker as "Samuel Evans Stokes, Jr.", later converted to Hinduism[335]
- Cheryl Tiegs (b. 1947), American model, current religious status uncertain[336]
- William Weeks (1813–1900), architect and temporary convert to Mormonism[337]
- Walt Whitman (1819–1892), eminent American poet, born to Hicksite Quaker parents
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- ↑ Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
- ↑ The Royal Society
- ↑ Royal Society databank. Retrieved 11 October 2011.
- ↑ ODNB: Jim Burton, "Howard, Luke (1772–1864)" Retrieved 22 March 2014, pay-walled.
- ↑ Bethlehem Globe-Times (28 March 1888), "Alfred Hunt, the well known president of the Bethlehem Iron Company dead."
- ↑ ODNB entry by F. M. Leventhal: Retrieved 29 August 2012. Pay-walled.
- ↑ LyndonLaRouche
- ↑ GuideToRecords-body.ind
- ↑ ODNB: Penultimate paragraph implies that he was not an active Quaker. Retrieved 30 December 2010.
- ↑ ODNB entry: Retrieved 18 October 2011. Subscription required.
- ↑ The Dolley Madison Project
- ↑ CNN
- ↑ The Seven Storey Mountain
- ↑ Harvard Square Library
- ↑ Paine Society
- ↑ Catholic Authors
- ↑ Ned Rorem's 1998 statements concerning his piece for organ "Quaker Reader".
- ↑ ODNB entry: Retrieved 22 October 2011. Subscription required.
- ↑ Barbara Dennis: "Shorthouse, Joseph Henry (1834–1903)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, UK: OUP 2004) Retrieved 9 December 2015. Pay-walled]
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- ↑ ODNB entry for Smith [née Whitall], Hannah: Retrieved 22 October 2011. Subscription required.
- ↑ Tribune India
- ↑ Time Magazine: The Tiegs family went to Quaker meetings on Sundays.
- ↑ Mormon Historical Studies 3 (1): 73-90.
External links
- Adherents.com's Famous Quakers Page
- Jenny's Famous Quakers Page
- Some Quaker Writers and Artists of the Past
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